Background
Jenkins, Daniel Edwards was born on December 13, 1866 in Flintshire, N. Wales. Son of John M. and Jennie E. Jenkins.
Jenkins, Daniel Edwards was born on December 13, 1866 in Flintshire, N. Wales. Son of John M. and Jennie E. Jenkins.
Came with parents to the United States. University of Wooster, 1882-1885. Went to Australia; graduate Melbourne University, 1889, Master of Arts, 1890.
Student Ormond Division Hall, Melbourne, 1889, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1890.
Doctor of Philosophy, Washington and Jefferson College, 1898. Doctor of Divinity, University of Pittsburgh, 1906.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1891. Pastor, New London, Pennsylvania, 1891-1896. President and Armstrong professor mental and moral sciences, Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, 1896-1900.
Professor didactic and polemic theology, Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Omaha, Nebraska, since 1900.
Also president University of Omaha, since 1909. Stone lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1905-1906.
Member National Council of National Economics League. Member special vice commission appointed by governor of Nebraska, 1915.
Married Annie Finley, June 15, 1892. Children: Finley Dubois, Lucille Edwards (deceased), John Laurie, Annie B., William Robert, Daniel Edwards.